JoNorvelleWalker

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/BRITA+UK/page/30B36E8E-026B-40D0-89D7-22208CA80368?ref_=ast_bln

I use German Brita filters. In North America the Brita brand is owned by Clorox. Different products.

Though If the NP-NVC18 could cook oats, what would be the point of stating in the NP-NVC18 instruction manual Important Safeguards it cannot?

Except for color your valve looks the same as mine.

Amazing coincidence: the size of my mai tai is 16 oz.

Toe pictures in a food blog are always welcome. When I saw your post I wondered if Kerry's Manitoulin sub had made it that far south? Here in New Jersey we are having a local food event called "Subfest" -- having nothing to do with hoagies.

I consider ground beef to be messy. Even Kenji wears gloves for ground beef. With my Demeyere Searing Pan screaming on the stove I removed the previously opened plastic package from the refrigerator and placed the beef and its wrappings on the counter next to the sink. As it happens the dishwasher is next to the sink. The package was unwieldy, and this was after a mai tai. And @gfweb, it is a Frigidaire.

I will never again dump the ground beef in the bottom of the dishwasher. And for once I might be serious.

Apples and oranges, but I have three editions of the hardback NYT Cookbook, and that would be my choice.

I received my Vekkia from amazon the other day. It is everything that @heidih promised. I was so pleased I ordered a newer model from the same supplier that was $2 more. On the new version there is no lump in the middle of the (your) neck, and no wretched micro USB connector, the worst electrical connector devised by man (obviously). In addition to perusing cookbooks, I can use the lights for commuting down the state highway in the dark of night on my trek home from the library. Gives drivers something to aim at.

Just to clarify: Jo uses these mats for (infrequent) dehydrating in the APO. Jo has never used them for baking anything .

https://anovaculinary.com/sous-vide-accessories/perforated-pan/

Pretty, but a disappointment: Kenji's Easy Skillet-Braised Chicken with Mushrooms and Bacon, The Food Lab p252. Easy I suppose is relative, but that does not excuse the other faults. For one thing, the bacon is cooked three minutes and transferred to a plate. Thence never to be mentioned. Kenji is not one to pass up on bacon. He probably ate it all, waiting for the chicken. I braised the chicken almost twice as long as called for. Still pink. It was supposed to be falling off the bone. It wasn't.

I pictured Patagonia.

Dinner tonight involved searing chicken thighs. I love Rough Linen, especially now that I can put on my apron in just a couple minutes! Nonetheless, the beautiful Rough Linen pinafore is worth far more than any clothes I may or may not be wearing in the kitchen. And if you're picturing hot spattering fat branding human skin, no apron helps much for protecting forearms. Ask me, I know. Besides, at my age, forearms are mostly bruises, ulcers, open sores, and scar tissue already.

Where do I sign up?

I spent some much needed moments rearranging my pots and pans. Not least because I ordered four new ones last week.

I shall never again pull down a pile of pots and pans upon myself. Minor bruising, nothing broken.

At least the bottle didn't break.

I'd say skip the frosting.

And you probably like kale.

I've used only distilled water in my APO's. In my CSO's I would use double filtered and measured low hardness water. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/136349-do-brita-type-filters-work/?do=findComment&comment=2162319 The problem, at least in my kitchen, is not water hardness. My CSO's would clog up with organic matter*. Now that I use distilled water I have not been troubled by fauna and flora in the tanks. (That the APO tanks crack is a whole different issue.) *green algae and white floccular contaminate

Kenji smashburger, couple of fries.

https://www.fissler.com/us/products/product-detail/original-profi-collection-steam-inset-7-9-in-2019/ https://www.fissler.com/us/products/product-detail/original-profi-collection-conical-pan-6-3-in-2019/ https://www.fissler.com/us/products/product-detail/original-profi-collection-saucepan-flat-7-9-in-with-lid-2019/ https://www.fissler.com/us/products/product-detail/original-profi-collection-high-saucepan-6-3-in-with-lid-2019/ As well as a replacement pressure cooker gasket not on sale.

With no shame I succumbed twice.